After a very long week away and an even longer 8 hour drive home, this happened. A neighbor spotted these two at the local playground (with pond) and they tried to follow him home. This was yesterday and he was worried. So, since my niece and I had been driving all day, we decided we could use a walk and went to see what we could see.

These two came right up to us. They were hungry, friendly and completely ill-equipped to survive on their own. I had brought cat food along (mine ate cat and dog food along with chicken feed for that well rounded diet, LOL – or just to annoy the four-footers in the family) and they took it right out of my hand.

The only thing I had to capture them with was a cooler a friend had lent me for the trip. Deciding I’d just buy her a new one, I corralled them (one in the grass, the other I had to snag from the water) and brought them home.

Their photo is now on the neighborhood lost and found website page and they are tucked away in the garage, with food, water, cilantro – a duck favorite. Bixby is beside himself with curiosity, but I don’t want to stress them, so he’s banned from the garage.

The good news, the excitement has tempered any disapproval from the dogs about my long absence. The bad news? I’m attached (I love ducks) but am in no position at the moment to add more critters to my menagerie. There may need to be an intervention.

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Wife told me tonight we’re going to Nantucket in September 2018, where a neighbor’s daughter is getting married. The bride-to-be actually works in Australia, so I’m guessing the groom-to-be has family on the island. Never been there, so plenty of time to work out the logistics.

Ducks! We have community ducks in my town. No one owns them, and I don’t think they could survive in the wild, but they make a living as aggressive panhandlers. Best of luck finding your feathered wards’ owner or a new home.

@lamh36: Ha! See, I suggested Mooch be called the Joker because I think he looks like the Joker, and I predicted he would go full on Joker soon. And, behold! The process has begun. He’ll smear himself with clown make-up soon enough.
These people are such complete loons.

However, the Mooch/Joker does acknowledge that serious crimes should be reported to law enforcement. Might want to remind him of that tweet next time he is asked about the Russian election tampering investigation. And that one weird time the Trump campaign got an email offering help from the Russian government to win the election.

Yeah, somebody probably dumped them, thinking they would survive in the wild after living as pets. God, people suck. Start googling to see if there are duck rescue groups reasonably close by to take them because I will bet $$ no one claims them.

@lamh36:
I am utterly unsurprised. We are seeing court politics in its purest form, right here. And Skinny Matchstick is clumsy, obvious, and perfectly suited to Trump. He’s found a weak, vain king, has flattered his way into a trusted position, and is now going to poison Trump against his opposition one by one. I look forward to when he gets to Kushner.

When I was a little kid we had four ducklings and two goslings. Unfortunately a neighbor’s dog ripped the head off of one of the goslings. Anyway, I have loved ducks ever since. They were remarkably fun. They would follow me around and when I would quack (one of the ducks was a female mallard) they would come home. They liked lettuce quite a bit. The only problem was our yard was totally full of poop.

@CZanne: I may need help finding them a home. I’m not kidding about getting attached, ducks are just….cool, funny and very smart. I miss having them. I was thinking of having chickens next spring – but I’m just not ready to fence off part of the yard and get them a coop…and take care of them.

Right now Nora is giving me the stink eye, but Nick is all lovey-dovey.

@Felonius Monk: he’s an arrogant asshole who will soon get crosswise with both the Jarvankas and Orange Drools.

How long do you think it will take one of them to figure out the de facto COS just invited the FBI to sniff around the White House? and which one will it be. Maybe Eric’s wife? You think Melania’s actually the string-puller, a la Lucille Bluth?

@jl: A goal of stealth technology developmentwas to reduce the radar cross section of fighter planes to be equal to that of ducks. So someone did the measurement with actual ducks and published the paper in an IEEE journal. In the discusion, the author commented that the subjects voild be difficult to manage, and in extreme cases,revommende the m’ethods of Rombauer and Becker. The footnote cited the Joy of Cooking.

@jl: nah, he’s not about law & order except if he’s the ‘victim’, ie he’s embarrassed by the disclosure….and his job besides kissing drumpfs enormous ass was to get rid of Spicer and Preibus…so he’s almost there.

@TaMara (HFG): okay, eyes open. L’ville allows them, but the person I’d recommend is a) at limit and b) had a really bad year. Boulder humane is the better option for resources. But with help, fence & shelter is possible and both are within my competencies. (Ducks may be like cats – you don’t pick them; their goddess assigns them to you when she feels you need the blessing.) my email in my profile is active.

@jl: and he deleted the tweet after multiple commenters proved financial disclosures are public documents and posted the instructions for obtaining them. He claimed he did not try to get Priebus investigated, it was just all senior officials working together to stop leaks. Idiot.

@TaMara (HFG): My SIL has kept ducks and geese as pets. She lives in Virginia. I don’t know what her current flock consists of so she might not have capacity but I could ask. Her health likely prevents a complex pick up arrangement.

Thank goodness they found you! And what a nice person you are to go to all this trouble for them. I hope someone didn’t just let them loose assuming that they could survive on their own after being pets.

The duck on the left looks to be a Rouen (tho’ I’m not purely positive of that). We’ve a couple of females and one mightily horny male. They are pretty prolific layers, these females are All three live outside the very large run we’ve have had built for our geese and chickens, and at night when the chickens go into their house, the ducks happily waddle into the chicken daytime digs. This arrangement needs to be modified come winter – mightily horny drake can damage a hen very easily. Our goose is terrified of him.